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For Till, life was a competition he always seemed to lose: his childhood crush, Mizi, turned out to be a lesbian, and every girl who might have been interested in him inevitably ended up asking about Ivan while he collected girlfriends out of sheer boredom. What Till didn’t know was that Ivan also had a curious talent for sabotaging his chances for unknown reasons.
Or: five times Ivan had a girlfriend over the years and Till was an absolute disaster fueled by jealousy… and the one time Ivan stopped pretending.
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- English
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- 28,298
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- 4/6
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08 Apr 2026
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Has Ivan ever played chess? No. Does he even know what chess is? Also no.
Somehow, though, he performs so many mental gymnastics everyday that he might as well be constantly playing 4D chess against himself. As Sua would say, Ivan ‘thinks a lot for someone who acts like he’s never had a thought in his life.’
…Then Ivan falls in love with Till. The chess playing becomes ten times more violent.
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And so commences his master plan to make Till happy – a plan that happens to take 23+ years, a brief football career, taming a dragon using quantum physics, several war crimes, and very, very, very close brushes with death.
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07 Jan 2026
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Determined to win a stupid bet by proving that Ivan doesn’t like him like that, Till embarks on a mission to repel Ivan in every way possible.
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- English
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- 98,608
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- 13/15
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07 Jan 2026
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“The city never sleeps. It’s always about the hustle and bustle out there. Sleep, though, is what is needed for dreams. And here, we have an abundance of that too.” she pauses, smiling to herself before facing Ivan, staring into his eyes, “So what are yours?”
(Or A Post-Round 7 AU where Ivan gets some hobbies and friends, Till gets some hobbies and friends and maybe just this once, they can do it together.)
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 16/16
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07 Jan 2026
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Till is a normal 29-year-old man working a normal nine-to-five job in order to survive. Well, he isn’t entirely normal, since most men his age would’ve lost their virginity by now. He doesn’t mind being a virgin, though; it’s not like it’s severely affecting his life.
That is, until his 30th birthday.
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Or: After living for three decades without having his cherries popped, Till somehow gains mind-reading powers. He does not know the ‘hows’ or ‘whys,’ only that these newfound powers have led him to read his coworker, Ivan’s, thoughts. And, they are...a lot to take in. To say the least. / Cherry Magic AU
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- English
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- 55,405
- Chapters:
- 14/14
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07 Jan 2026
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Till considered himself an average teenager. So what if his dad declared him a failure, his teachers labeled him "a handful," and his sparse friends called him... well, "an acquired taste"? Till floated through life wholly unconcerned by anyone else's opinion.
Until, one bizarre morning, everything changed.
Waking up, Till discovered vibrant, digital-looking numbers hovering like halos above everyone's heads. Disorienting? Absolutely. But the real shocker was the number crowning Ivan—his infuriatingly perfect frenemy.
It shimmered an impossible 100%. And it was...pink?
What were these numbers? Why was he cursed (or blessed?) with seeing them? And seriously—why was Ivan's at maximum capacity?!
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Ivan, meanwhile, was fascinated. Why was the boy he'd quietly watched for years suddenly avoiding his gaze?
And was Till actually... blushing?
Not that Ivan was complaining, of course.
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Or: The one where Till suddenly became aware of everyone’s affections—including his own.
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- English
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- 10/?
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Bookmarked by Kayxte
07 Jan 2026
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All of me, huh? Could he do that? He'd done so much in secret for so long, it felt terrifying to drag it all into the light. But for Till? For himself and the chance that this time, maybe, they could be different?
"Yeah."
And then Till looked over his shoulder, caught Ivan's gaze and held it. "Thank you. I know I'm really late in saying it. But I'm also really, really happy that I still have the chance to say it at all."
Till believed Ivan died sacrificing himself for him. Ivan believed Till died in the fiery destruction of the Alien Stage.
And neither knew that the other survived.
Eight years later, Till has settled into caring for the children he'd rescued from the Alien Stage Museum with the help of the rest of the Rebellion, while Ivan continues working to fulfill what he believes would have been Till's last wish. When they're reunited, they have the chance to say everything they should have said once upon a time and to discover the mutual love that once eluded them. But only if they can overcome all the scars that mark them.
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- Part 1 of The Absence of Stars
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Bookmarked by Kayxte
07 Jan 2026